Omicron mutation – Britain: Hospitals ‘bleeding’ due to staff exposure to coronavirus

In the “red” are the hospitals in Britain, especially those in London, as they struggle to maintain their staffing capacity due to the number of those who need to be isolated due to their exposure to coronavirus, as he said today, Thursday (16/12) a doctor in the emergency services.

With the new very contagious Omicron mutation spread yesterday recorded the highest number of daily cases since the beginning of the pandemic with 78,610 new infections.

“The serious problem is essentially staffing,” she told the BBC Kathryn Henderson, President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine.

“Even if there is not a large increase in hospitalizations, we are already seeing the impact of not having enough staff to do the shifts properly and safely. “We are therefore concerned about the harm that patients may suffer because we do not have the staff.”

“We are talking about a possible 10% of staff, ie doctors and nurses, who need to be decommissioned,” she said.

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